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Alice
: essential video:This adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland mixes animation and live action to create a dreamlike world, but don't let that fool you into thinking it's simply a kid's film. Young Alice (Kristyna Kohoutová, spoken by Camilla Power) watches a stuffed and mounted rabbit come to life in her playroom and follows it through a magical drawer into a strange world that resembles a 19th-century toy store come to life, with a few specimens from a natural ...
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International Tournee of Animation 4
: :Independent animator Bill Plympton first received widespread public attention when his outré 'Your Face' (1987) was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short. His short films--some as brief as 15 seconds--made between 1985 and 1991 showcase his unique talent much more effectively than his ponderous features, The Tune and I Married a Strange Person. Plympton's earliest films indicate that he experimented with a variety of techniques--cutouts, cel animation, stop motion--before finding his personal style: colored pencil drawings on paper ...
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Fantastic Planet
: :Based on French science fiction novelist Stefan Wul's Oms en Serie ('Oms by the Dozen'), René Laloux's La Planète Sauvage (its title changed to Fantastic Planet for the U.S. release) paints an animated tale of humans kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue humanoid giants called Traags. The story takes place on the Traags' planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr, from infancy to adulthood, when he escapes his subjugation with a Traag ...
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Mr. Rossi's Vacation [Animated] (Le Vacanze del signor Rossi)
: :Based on French science fiction novelist Stefan Wul's Oms en Serie ('Oms by the Dozen'), René Laloux's La Planète Sauvage (its title changed to Fantastic Planet for the U.S. release) paints an animated tale of humans kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue humanoid giants called Traags. The story takes place on the Traags' planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr, from infancy to adulthood, when he escapes his subjugation with a Traag ...
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Authorized International Edition of the Soyuzmultfilm Library (in Russian) Vol 47: Sister Alionushka and Brother Ivanushko, Cat's House (1958), Fairy Tale about the Priest and His Worker Balda
: :Based on French science fiction novelist Stefan Wul's Oms en Serie ('Oms by the Dozen'), René Laloux's La Planète Sauvage (its title changed to Fantastic Planet for the U.S. release) paints an animated tale of humans kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue humanoid giants called Traags. The story takes place on the Traags' planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr, from infancy to adulthood, when he escapes his subjugation with a Traag ...
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B.O. Zagreb Film: Be Careful What & Classic
:Description:In four decades, Zagreb Film of Yugoslavia produced 600 animated films, winning more than 400 international awards. The studio quickly became famous for a unique animation style that became known as 'the Zagreb school.' One of the pioneering distinctions was that its filmmakers wrote, designed, and directed their own films, resulting in boldly entertaining cartoons unified in design, tone and message. This volume includes Be Careful What You Wish For, fourteen stories of irony, double cross, and mystery. Some are ...
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Masters of Russian Animation Vol. 2: Island, Singing Teacher, Liberated Don Quixote, Last Hunt, Old Stair
:Description:Island (Director F. Khitruk) Singing Teacher (Director A. Petrov) Liberated Don Quixote (Director V. Kurchevsky) Last Hunt (Director V. Karavaev) Old Stair (Director A. Gorlenko)
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Faust
:Description:Island (Director F. Khitruk) Singing Teacher (Director A. Petrov) Liberated Don Quixote (Director V. Kurchevsky) Last Hunt (Director V. Karavaev) Old Stair (Director A. Gorlenko)
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Conspirators of Pleasure
:Description:Island (Director F. Khitruk) Singing Teacher (Director A. Petrov) Liberated Don Quixote (Director V. Kurchevsky) Last Hunt (Director V. Karavaev) Old Stair (Director A. Gorlenko)
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Masters of Animation 4
:Description:Island (Director F. Khitruk) Singing Teacher (Director A. Petrov) Liberated Don Quixote (Director V. Kurchevsky) Last Hunt (Director V. Karavaev) Old Stair (Director A. Gorlenko)
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